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Given infrastructure’s integral role in enabling high-functioning economies around the world and the concern that the pace of investment is not keeping up with the need for it, I have recently begun to focus my research on the consequences of different approaches to...
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A heated debate is raging in Congress over whether to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank. The Ex-Im Bank, as it is commonly known, is an independent federal agency charged with providing credit assistance for U.S. exporters. Beneficiaries include large corporations (in 2012, over 80% of the guarante...
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Visiting Scholar Xun Wu, a PhD student at Tsinghua University, is in residence at the CFP for the 2014-15 academic year to pursue his dissertation research on “Chinese Local Government Indebtedness: Systemic Risk and Financial Cost.”
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On July 11, Scott Bell, senior accountant at the US Department of the Treasury, visited the Center to provide an overview of the financial report of the U.S. government. Mr. Bell gave [...]
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Jonathan Parker, Robert C. Merton Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan and co-director at the MIT GCFP, recently provided answers on [...]
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Edward Golding (MIT), Laurie Goodman (Urban Institute), and Jun Zhu (Indiana University and Urban Institute)
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Former Golub Senior Fellow, Laura Kodres, discusses the similarities between what happened with British pension funds in autumn 2022 and SVB.
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The Center for Finance and Policy has teamed with The SWIFT Institute to host a conference this fall to explore areas that could result in better interactions between [...]
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On December 11, 2023, the MIT GCFP brought together a panel of experts on housing and financial regulation to examine whether changes to the FHLBS might be warranted.
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Housing finance policy has been built during and for times of crisis. Just look at the long list of government actions related to the financing of housing [...]
